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The Maola Milk & Ice Cream Company started in 1935. Contemporary milk companies like Coble and Pine State have either gone out of business or been absorbed by conglomerates. At age 66, Maola, the state's last independent dairy, is going strong into the 21st century. The dairy has a workforce of 500 statewide, and in 2000 completed a $10 million expansion at its New Bern plant.
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5238
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Each year across the state thousands of acres of undeveloped lands are lost to urban sprawl. Concerned citizens, including farmers and landowners, seek ways to preserve the countryside. Hunter examines a number of land conservation options, including conservation easements, donation of land by will, mutual covenants, and lease.
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5239
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The Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, an Indian community living in Alamance County, has received official state recognition as a tribe living in North Carolina. The Occaneechi Band had sought recognition for seventeen years. To achieve recognition, a tribe must meet five of eight criteria, including tracing lineage in North Carolina back at least 200 years, as specified by the North Carolina Commission on Indians Affairs.
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North Carolina farmers are raising goats for food. A cooperative, formed by Franklin County goat farmers, promotes raising and selling this new health food. While it may be a new food to Americans, goat meat is popular among many ethnic cultures residing in North Carolina, including Hispanic, Middle and Far Eastern. The co-op currently has 77 members in Franklin and surrounding counties and markets nationwide.
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A web-site produced by the East Carolina University Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection features photographs, manuscripts, and other historical materials that center on Pitt County's tobacco industry in the early 1900s. The site is part of a larger state project that will make the state's history available online. The web-site is available at www.lib.ecu.edu/exhibits/tobacco.
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5453
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At 111 years of age, Robert Hodges of Pamlico County is the nation's oldest veteran. He was born June 18, 1891, near Bath in Beaufort County. He joined the U.S. Army in 1918 and saw service in Belgium and France during World War I. Fewer than 1,500 veterans of that war are still living.
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5773
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An official license plate was not required for a car or motorcycle in North Carolina before 1909. That requirement began on July 1, 1909. Stinson discusses the history of North Carolina's motor vehicle license plates.
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Faries profiles Dr. Charles Boyette, who has been Belhaven's doctor for almost 40 years and its mayor for 10. Boyette and three other country doctors from around the nation received finalist honors in the recent Country Doctor of the Year Award, out of 248 nominees and 60,000 rural physicians. The award, now in its eighth year, honors rural physicians \"who demonstrate extraordinary dedication to patients, community, and profession.\"
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North Carolina has a rich pottery tradition stretching from the present-day back to Native Americans 2,000 or 3,000 years ago. From its early utilitarian days, pottery has evolved into an art form. At one time there were over 200 potteries in the Seagrove area, and some potters working there today are ninth-generation. House discusses pottery and places in the state to view it.
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In 1963, the North Carolina General Assembly created a statewide community college system. Today the system has become a model for the nation and is rivaled only by those in California and Texas. Around 800,000 students are enrolled across the state.
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11.Where Were the Rosenwald Schools? by Staino, Patricia Carolina Country Vol. 35 Issue 7, July 2003
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5902
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Through funds provided by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to improve African American education, 5,300 Rosenwald schools were built in rural areas of 15 Southern states between 1917 and 1932. North Carolina built the most with over 830. Many have fallen into ruin. An effort is now underway \"to find, identify, and record the location of these schools before the structures disappear altogether.\"
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5903
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Windsor native Viola Lassiter Veale paints bits and pieces of Bertie County history. Her work \"recalls African American history, landscapes, and historic buildings.\"
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5953
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Ron Harris, a noted arrowhead collector, calls these projectile points \"the gems of the Carolina Piedmont.\" He discusses what these ancient artifacts reveal about the state's earliest inhabitants.
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6080
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Two giant hangars were built in Weeksville, Pasquotank County, in 1941, to house blimps used in anti-submarine warfare during World War II. One was the largest wooden structure ever built. The other hangar measured 960 feet in length and had two clamshell doors that weighed 420 tons apiece. House recounts the history of the blimps and their huge hangars from World War II to the present.
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Burke County native Eddie Bridges has been involved with the outdoors all his life. He served on the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for twelve years and also on the Game Law Revision Committee. He has worked with Ducks Unlimited and was behind state legislation enacting the Wildlife Endowment Fund. He has received many awards, including the Chevron Conservation Award and the Governor's Award for Conservationist of the Year in 1993. This year he is one of only four nominees nationwide for the prestigious 2004 Budweiser Conservationist of the Year Award.
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